Subtle coloring and an impressionistic approach to landscape distinguish this patriotic animated short set to music. After a flourishing Soviet hamlet is destroyed by Nazi planes, the sole survivor is confronted by a hulking Nazi commando in a tank. The military man tries to cajole the young violinist into repeating a jaunty harmonica melody at gunpoint but the boy strikes up a noble song of resistance instead. Stepantsev's film may romance the idea of martyrdom but it does so with a gravity not often found in similar films.
Crew
Boris Stepantsev
Director
Yuri Yakovlev
Writer
Mikhail Druyan
Director of Photography
Yuriy Butyrin
Animation
Anatoliy Petrov
Animation
Viktor Shevkov
Animation
Renata Mirenkova
Animation
Anatoliy Abarenov
Animation
Yuriy Kuzyurin
Animation
Nikolay Erykalov
Animation
Boris Filchikov
Sound
Mikhail Ziv
Music
Anatoly Savchenko
Art Direction
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